so thus begins justin's 7th finals session. jesus that makes me feel like i've been here a long time. i'll be blunt, readers -- finals are the time of year where everybody kicks their fucked-up-ness up just a notch or two. it never fails, every year you can just watch people going insane on campus. most people are just completely stressed out, and if you ever happen to have a relatively light finals period (it does happen now and then) go over to the 6th floor of evans and getcha a window seat and just kick back and enjoy the fuckin insanity.
i think now any time i hear the word "final" used in an academic sense i sorta always think back to the crazyass times me and dustin had when finals came around. double all-nighters and such, gets to the point where one of us would ask the other the time and then they have to sorta embarrassingly mumble... "uh... am or pm, dude?" it gets to be a weird feeling when you're like not seeing any daylight anymore.
that's kinda my MO for finals. i study best at night and sleep best during the day, so when i don't have any classes i've sorta come to just conform to when you do have a final, base your schedule on that. a lot of people don't seem to understand that. they see a 7:30am final as being horrible cuz they wake up early, but why didn't they do what i did? i slept the day before, and then studied all night and just went straight to the test in the morning like it was just a normal night class, heh. of course alayna never really likes when i "go nocturnal" but eh, it's only temporary and it's actually kinda fun to switch your schedule up a bit.
this time around i've got 2 finals on tuesday, 2 on wednesday. good in that they're at the end of the session, but bad in that they're all clustered together with two hardcore CS classes back to back. till then i've got some assignments/projects to sorta complete so between that and studying for the finals i'll be pretty goddamn busy.
at first i thought this semester was heading straight for the shitter but it's turned out pretty good. i have this longshot at a 4.0 this semester, although it prolly won't fall like that at all. i could even get a C or something, but prolly not worse than a 3.25 for the semester which would just sorta leave my GPA where it already is. it doesn't really matter that much anymore anyway since i've got my job lined up. they don't really seem to give a rat's ass whether i have a 3.30 or a 3.38, it still says 3.3 on my resume and then it's forgotten.
it's a goofy finals session this year though. between the biblical-like weather and having to build a new computer relatively quickly it's just felt kinda weird. what the fuck's with the weather anyway? i hate this bullshit where you gotta change clothes 3 times a day to be dressed properly. typical CS conditions in like october and maybe a bit of november are cold in the morning, hot in the afternoon and freezing when the sun goes down. but this year we're still wearing short sleeves and shorts off & on in december. that alone just makes me wanna get to colorado faster where it's just plain cold.
my old HP box was just starting to get too fucked to really handle anything anymore (it could run XP on a good day for like an hour straight) so i put together a nice package.
i built a box with an MSI Delta-LSR 400mhz MB, AMD Athlon XP 3000+, 1GB of Kingston DDR 3200 RAM, couple 80GB HD's, 48X burner, GeForce4 card all wrapped in a sleek silver Enermax case with blue LED's and case fans on the side, Samsung 17" flat panel for the display. pretty fuckin beautiful if you ask me. the plan right now is to convert my old box to an all-linux terminal, but i'll take other interesting suggestions, such as dragging it from a car for 10+ miles, dropping it from considerable heights, and setting it on fire. take it from me, don't buy an HP. build your own. :)
let's see, here's a new feature that hopefully won't piss people off... i'll put the latest news with several of my contacts here with a scrambled name so they won't be able to [immediately] tell i'm talking about them.
cRki - came up with some sweet voodoo logic where we only have to make like mid-B's and could even skip a hw to still get A's in our class.
asceJsi - at this point she doesn't even answer my IM's, not sure if there's more to it than that or she's just ignoring me. pretty fuckin sad that she can become friends with somebody and yet when her boyfriend's within 5 miles she drops everybody else like they don't matter. when somebody is pretty shady about returning emails, cell calls and IM's, ya kinda run out of options, huh?
yntKhar - things were going alright with her until she didn't send a pretty important email back and didn't return a cell call. i sent her a nice long pissy lecturing email she didn't really like at all, so we haven't even spoken since that. not sure what to do about it. need to patch things up in person over the break back home.
edCinac - things are prolly completely over. after 3 straight unreturned cell calls spread out over about a month, i resorted to a flame type email, which yielded nothing. i'm gonna come right out and say that chick was sweet but ended up being a complete bitch. congratulations on further proving to me why i never liked sorority chicks to begin with.
nLrio - had some potential there, but mostly fucked due to the fact that she's about to graduate. she made my 438 class fun all semester but i wish things had gone a little differently. don't really dig how she spent most of her time justifying what kind of person she is instead of just doing the right thing and proving it to me. i really enjoyed talking to her and all that during the semester though. just kinda wish she'd done a better job getting her shit wired so we coulda hung out or whatever, but she apologized appropriately every time it happened and she doesn't leave a bad taste in my mouth really. all i can do is hope she remains some kinda penpal and that things go well for her in san antonio.
aaruL - provided some drunken fun saturday night, but unfortunately went a bit too far. think the lesson was learned tho and it prolly won't happen again. sorta proved to be a much cooler chick than i had thought before, just needs to let loose a bit more often. hopefully it doesn't always take 7 vodka shots to do so.
nthaCsira - prolly the only person i know right now (no offense to any readers) that's actually made the transition from my bad to my good side. proven that she's not the person i had painted her to be, and she's fun to talk to when she just drops the badass attitude and talks to you like she cares what you say. even turned out to be quite civil online.
Lnreua - tired of seeing her get fucked by people. going to my big brother mode where i just want everybody to stop hurting my baby sister. i'm here if she needs me.
next couple days will consist of possibly writing a paper, writing some code, hitting the books, tivo'd law & order/PTI/NHL2Night/etc and dvd's the two towers/serial experiments: lain discs 2-4/etc during any breaks. just glad to type this up on a fully functional computer and shit, heh.
get back to ya soon.
--justin
